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Idioms and Countries and Customs
I have a italki friend. She is from India. She is nice and sometimes we speak by spoke on Skype. One day she asked me an extrange strange question. The question Perhaps it is a normal question in her country but it sounds extrange. to me.
"How many languages are there in your country?"
At first I hesitated. Why, thinked, of course only one, Spanish. , All Argentinians [or "Argentines"] speak Spanish. Exists other lenguages True, there are languages spoken by for the indigenous people but it is disappearing as its people are slowly disappearing or being assimilated into the general population. almost it doesn't exist, almost there aren't indigenous people, Argentina hasn't does not have ancient big and grand civilizations like the Mayas, Aztecas or Incas.
Many countries have heterogeneous [too scientific a term used here] people different ethnicities with different religions or ethnicity and obviusly and along with it, different idioms cultures. We are grandsons descended from of Italian and Spanish and but we speak Spanish only.
There are 4 official languages in Switzerland and Singapore and in mainland China, hundreds of different dialects so unintelligible in oral speech. However, we can understand each other when it is written down. We share the same script and to a certain extent Japanese and Korean if they use Chinese characters. Think of the characters as computer icons.
Idioms [Are you trying to say "languages" instead of "idioms"? I know "idioma" and "idioms" sound very similar but they do not mean the same thing in English.] and Countries
I have an italki friend. She is from India. She is nice and sometimes we Skype. [It is very common for tech- and web-related terms to stand for themselves. So sometimes, when you ask someone to call you tonight, you usually say, "We can Skype" instead of "We can talk by Skype." Thus it is quite common for someone to ask you to "google" something to mean, "search" for something on the web.] One day she asked me a strange question. The question was a normal one but it sounded strange.
"How many languages are there in your country?"
First I thought, of course there is only one, Spanish. All Argentinians speak Spanish. There are languages for indigenous people but they are almost extinct nowadays because there are not a lot of indigenous people left in Argentina. Argentina didn't have big civilizations like the Mayas, Aztecs or Incas. While many countries have heterogenous populations with different religions, ethnicities and languages, Argentina on the other hand, is mostly homogenous. We are afterall descendants of
Italian and Spanish settlers and thus we speak only one language, Spanish.
Idioms and countries
I have a italki friend, She is from India. She is nice and Sometimes we speak by skype. One day she asked me an extrange question. The question is a normal question but it sounds extrange.
-How many languages are there in your country?
First I thinked, of course one, spanish, all Argentinian speak spanish. Exists other lenguages for the indigenous people but almost it doesn't exist, almost there aren't indigenous people, Argentina hasn't anciant big civilizations like Mayas, Aztecas or Incas. Many countries have heterogeneous people with different religion or ethnicity and obviusly different idioms. We are grandsons of
Italian and Spanish and we speak spanish only.
extrange=strange thinked=thought capitalize spanish
Idioms and countries
I have an italki friend, She is from India. She is nice and sometimes we speak on skype. One day she asked me a strange question. It is is a normal question but sounds strange.
-How many languages are spoken in your country?
First I thought, of course one, spanish, all Argentinian speak spanish. There exist other lenguages for the indigenous people but it is almost as if they don't exist , there are almost no indigenous people, Argentina does not have big ancient civilizations like Mayas, Aztecas or Incas. Many countries have heterogeneous people with different religion or ethnicity and obviusly different dialects. We are descendants of
Italian and Spanish and we speak only spanish.
Idioms and countries
I have an italki friend, She is from India. She is nice and sometimes we speak by skype. One day she asked me a strange question. The question is a normal question but it sounds strange.
-How many languages are there in your country?
First I thinked, of course one, spanish, all Argentinians speak spanish. There are other languages for the indigenous people but barely, as are very few indigenous people. Argentina didn't have ancient big civilizations like Mayas, Aztecas or Incas. Many countries have heterogeneous people with different religion or ethnicity and obviously different idioms. We are grandsons of Italian and Spanish and we speak spanish only.
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